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Even the 2000 Pontiac Aztek will be eligible in 2025, plus its rebadged Buick version(Rendezvous) two years later. Don't laugh, the tailfin cars and Edsels were predicted to be non-collectible at one time. When I bought a Nash Metro when I was in college, it cost about what my used 10-speed did -- $100 -- but Metro prices have recovered a lot since then.

Thanks for your interest in this rarely-discussed carmaker, 1912 Caddy. The Model 56, Series 1 thru 7, was 1916-1922. The 6-70 continued into 1925 for 3 or 4 months and the Peerless 6-72 was built 1925-1927.

No worries. Just bring a bunch of these in your money clip:

1921, when the Peerless above was built, was when 14 officers of Cadillac Motors took over Peerless. Richard Collins became President, and brought with him a new 289 Cu. In. Six, designed by Cadillac's Experimental Engineering Department, under Richard Emig.* For 1923, there was a new rad shell for all Peerlesses**, and the new engine was employed in the Model Six-70 in 1924...ending 8 years of V-8-Only for the automaker. Richard Lichtfeld has written about how Collins brought what's often called a "Collins Six" to Cleveland when GM didn't want it in Cadillacs. The engine had comparable horsepower to the V-8 but allowed a lower sales price. Peerless sales in 1921 was just 1,000 cars(Model 56); and the 6-70 alone sold 2,700 cars, combined with 3,651 Model 66 V-8s sold in 1923-1924, according to my math. * I just read in a snippet of info on Ebay[April, 2024] that Peerless paid $500,000 to buy Collins Motor Car Company to obtain the new Collins 289 Cu. In. engine. ** Both the Mod. 66 V-8 and the Mod. 6-70 had Cadillac Lookalike rad shells in 1923 and 1924.

There was a nice little Chris-Craft for sale in Montreal recently: the "Allez", built in 1930. 48 feet long, $649K price 3 years ago, 30-knot capability. Still cheaper than a Blower Bentley!

Hard to get more Streamlined Moderne than this. Yvonne Aupicq with a 1936 Bugatti 57S Atlantic Coupe

I don't know if it's the same one or not, but the cowl lights are the same type.

This Model "L" 1922 Lincoln sold last August through the Bonhams event in California. There's a small chance it's the one my family owned from 1921 to 1972. The last decade the one pictured was with Don & Lynette Short. The one my family had was bought new by my Aunt, then Glenn D. Brown had it until the 70s, then it was flipped by someone who sold it to the Ed Towe-founded Montana Auto Museum in Deer Lodge Montana. About 20 years later, Ed's car collections in Deer Lodge and Sacramento were auctioned, and I lost track of where my grandfather's seven-passenger sedan wound up. It sold last summer for $21,280.

This 1921 Peerless Model 56 is for sale on Classic Car Deals, a car broker. The only known '21 Peerless, it was listed on an auction 7 years ago, but not sold. Car's location: S.W. Utah. The asking price is $149,000 this time around. Production was 1,000 in 1921...cost $2,790.

There's a 1921 Peerless 7-P Touring Car for sale by Classic Car Deals in Cadillac, MI. I think it's the only '21 Peerless. $149,995 ..................................This was restored in St. George, UT. The broker is in Michigan, the car is in Utah. 322 Cu. In. Peerless Equipoised V-8, dual exhausts, 80 HP.

2007 Barrett-Jackson auction. Grumpy Jenkins' Chevrolet drag car, non-original motor, but nice paint, though!

A lot of rational statements about this 1934 Packard; yes a man or woman with a few thousand to buy it who's too starry-eyed to realize how many $10,000 jobs there are to get it in good shape is in for a disappointment, but there are a LOT pf people who could make a few phone calls to come up with the money for a turn-key restoration. In 2007 somebody wrote a $577,500 check for a Vega, and in 2012 two old boys paid $2,000,000 for some slippers Judy Garland wore for a few hours.

Hi Dave, You're right, with Richard Lichtfeld's passing, the club is in disarray, to say the least. A new editor of the Co-Operator newsletter was found, but business concerns made it impractical to continue for him. So the club is inactive... When David Baird ran Membership & the newsletter 10 or 12 years ago, things really got going, but he couldn't do it by himself despite the input of lots of time and funds. Unfortunately, he died in 2014. I'll try to put together some contact information of people with cars and send it to you. I still keep the KPAIE list.........370 vehicles thought to be still in existence, and try to keep the AACA Peerless Forum going. Glad you posted here!

Agree with Mark Wetherbee that it's a 1929 Peerless straight-eight Model 8-125; a rather scarce car nowadays. Here's one new --- possibly a parade shot celebrating the '32 Olympics.

I am guessing a 1937 Model 120 Convertible Sedan. Someone else says a 1947. This is Jimmy Buffet around 1971.

J.E.G. . . . Very good! The Cruise of the Rolling Junk was F. Scott Fitzgerald's last book, by publication. Not out til 2011. Written in 1922, about a 1920 trip. Appeared in Motor Magazine, i believe, as a serial in 1924. It was written around the time The Great Gatsby was being written and was one of the early road trip stories. I think their Marmon broke down a lot while they tried to drive a thousand miles from Connecticut to Alabama. 41 Su8 . . . A reviewer thought it was a Speedster. I think you would be right on the Chummy Roadster, that style with a back seat accessed from the front. Sometimes called a cloverleaf.

Has anyone seen this photo before? It's of a notable woman with a notable car. ..................1918 Marmon Model 34 Speedster..................

I read about a Blower Bentley with Weymann body for sale recently, text stating that there were 5 built and it was the only survivor. Like the Stutz and Peerless cars, pretty rarified air you're breathing at that level.

...interesting. Just noticed the wheelbase. 125" means it's the same as the Model B Peerless for 1930. A 118" w.b. Standard 8 B 125" w.b. Master 8 C 138" w.b. Custom 8

Great Find, A.J. I know of a known survivor out St. Louis way....the former Stan Knight car. In 2016 you may recall it on the AACA Peerless Forum and in Hemmings. A rather desirable car.

Thanks 57 Roadmaster for the ad! As to survivors and chassis' sent to Weymann, that would be KBTG*....or whoever can scare up the entire Peerless records collection donated to a library in Cleveland in 1946....or Weymann records....or one of the trade publications relating to bespoke bodies. A.J., I did tell you about one "undiscovered" 1930 Peerless that hasn't come out of the woodwork yet. But, like the Big D I found the "D" historian was unaware of but still dimly familiar to a couple of guys who thought it was undesirable, who knows what it really is. *Known But To God

As I recall, the President of Peerless arranged for some ads in the NY Times saying this was the 4th line of Peerless straight eights introduced this year, and that the company was the oldest maker of fine cars in America. After some comments that Packard was, James Bohannon paid for a rather cheeky reply that Peerless has been represented at the NY Auto Show every year since 1900, while Packard cars only go back to about 1902 at the show because of their name change from Ohio Automobile Company.

Well, here's a 1907 Peerless for sale by Stewart Laidlaw in North Carolina: _ _ _ __ _ _ also listed on the AACA HCCA Forum here ___ go to Classifieds _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ an Edwardian Peerless for Christmas has a good ring to it __________________________________________________________________$225,000

I did a quick look at KPAIE, Known Peerless Automobiles In Existence, and it shows nine, counting yours. > Offhand, they were in CA, UK, Belgium, NJ, WA, VA, IN & TX. > Of course, the predecessor 6-70 and the concurrent 6-90 for 1927 are almost the same car. > THEN you have the ones portrayed in the outstanding commercial art announcing the last in the series 6-91: ---------1928-1929....same 289 Cu. In. aluminum engine--------- > It can be a little hard to find articles and books about Peerless. If you do not have it you should go to ebay and get a copy of the 1970s Automobile Quarterly, VOL 11, No. 1. It has one of the best start-to-finish chapters on the marque, about 32 pp, written by Maurice Hendry. I've bought 2 copies of this hardcover book for about $10 each. On pg 98 is a great color photo of a 1927 Six-72.